Quotes by Wilfrid Laurier

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

– Wilfrid Laurier

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

– Wilfrid Laurier

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

– Wilfrid Laurier

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.